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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
To think of a infantry company, understrength by 30%....ouch!
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My understanding is that is 70% wasn't unusual for US infantry units in Vietnam, going out on operations. Armor and ground cavalry units did not necessarily do a whole lot better -- I can recall reading something David Drake (the sci-fi author) wrote about his Vietnam service where three man crews were typical on their M48s and two man crews weren't unheard of at all.